Motivational Quotes

Change

Sometimes the answer to prayer is not that it changes life, but that it changes you.

- Freeman, James Dillet

Best Quotes about Change

The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.

Branden, Nathaniel

The only practice that's now constant is the practice of constantly accommodating to change.

Mcgovern, William

Change hurts. It makes people insecure, confused, and angry. People want things to be the same as they've always been, because that makes life easier. But, if you're a leader, you can't let your people hang on to the past.

Marcinko, Richard

I realized the problem was me and nobody could change me except myself.

Petworth, John

Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed is painful; yet ever needful; and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope.

Carlyle, Thomas

When you make a career change there has to be some kind of connection. I remember a Beverly Hills attorney who wanted to become a potato farmer in Oregon. Well, there's a guy who's born to lose.

Richfield, Lew

If things change then they will be different, but if they don't then things will stay the same.

Gilcrest, Peter

Let us resolve to be masters, not the victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions.

Kennedy, John F.

There is such a thing as a general revolution which changes the taste of men as it changes the fortunes of the world.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Things don't change, but by and by our wishes change.

Proust, Marcel

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What we remember can always be changed, what we forget we are always.

Shelton, Richard

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The things that have come into being change continually. The man with a good memory remembers nothing because he forgets nothing.

Bastos, Augusto Roa

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If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.

Rohn, Jim

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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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Though I might travel afar, I will meet only what I carry with me, for every man is a mirror. We see only ourselves reflected in those around us. Their attitudes and actions are only a reflection of our own. The whole world and its condition has its counter parts within us all. Turn the gaze inward. Correct yourself and your world will change.

Zambucka, Kirsten

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Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt. Only by being open to change will you have a true opportunity to get the most from your talent.

Ryan, Nolan

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We don't change what we are, we change what we think what we are.

Butterworth, Eric

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The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Change is not reform, any more than noise is music.

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Man must be prepared for every event of life, for there is nothing that is durable.

Menander of Athens

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They are the weakest-minded and the hardest-hearted men that most love change.

Ruskin, John

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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.

Kettering, Charles F.

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The word change, so dear to our Europe, has been given a new meaning: it no longer means a new stage of coherent development (as it was understood by Vico, Hegel or Marx), but a shift from one side to another, from front to back, from the back to the left, from the left to the front (as understood by designers dreaming up the fashion for the next season).

Kundera, Milan

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God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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I've always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.

Pickens, T. Boone

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The primary and most beautiful of Nature's qualities is motion, which agitates her at all times, but this motion is simply a perpetual consequence of crimes, she conserves it by means of crimes only.

Sade, Marquis De

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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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People who wait for changes to occur on the outside before they commit to making changes on the inside will never make any changes at all.

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You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.

Heraclitus

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What I possess I would gladly retain. Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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One of the prevailing sources of misery and crime is in the generally accepted assumption, that because things have been wrong a long time, it is impossible they will ever be right.

Ruskin, John

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We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.

Harrison Ford

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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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Sometimes the answer to prayer is not that it changes life, but that it changes you.

Freeman, James Dillet

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Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

Carol Burnett

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You will never change your life until you change something you do daily.

Murdock, Mike

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Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable.

Waitley, Denis

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Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune.

Socrates

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Be not the first by which a new thing is tried, or the last to lay the old aside.

Pope, Alexander

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It's only the view from where you sit that makes you feel defeat. Life is full of many aisles, so why don't you change your seat?

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It is a psychological fact that you can influence your environment and thoughts. If you do so consciously and with high purpose, you can change your habits and attitudes for the better.

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A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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We live in an era when rapid change breeds fear, and fear too often congeals us into a rigidity which we mistake for stability.

White, Lynn

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People do no change with the times, they change the times.

Shaw, P.K.

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This is your time and it feels normal to you, but really, there is no normal. There's only change and resistance to it and then more change.

Meryl Streep